The Breeders- All Nerve Tour

Tonight was The Breeders second sold out show in Melbourne, this time at The Forum. They are touring in support of their latest album All Nerve, which features the early 1990s Last Splash line up. Opening the evening was Melbourne-based four piece band Hachiku, who played a fantastic set of dreamy indie pop music.

It was quite surreal to finally get to see The Breeders play live for the first time after all these years. They started their set with "Saints," which was one of many tracks played off Last Splash, an all time favorite album of mine. Other songs from that album included "No Aloha," "Divine Hammer," "Do You Love Me Now?," "New Year," the monster hit "Cannonball" and the country-tinged "Drivin' On 9" with Kelly Deal doing the violin solo vocally. They also did a few songs off of the 1990 album Pod with "Fortunately Gone," "Glorious" and "When I Was A Painter."

Of course the set also featured tracks off of All Nerve, with highlights being "Wait In The Car," "Walking With A Killer," "Skinhead #2" and "Howl At The Summit," which featured Courtney Barnett and Hachiku on vocals for the chorus. Courtney also came out to play guitar on "Off You." They finished the main set with The Pixies' track "Gigantic," and then for the encore started with a Guided By Voices cover before playing "I Just Wanna Get Along." The show nearly closed with the slow track "Dawn: Making An Effort," but the band came back out on stage and finished the night with the more lively "Iris." All in all it was a fantastic evening, and seeing Kelly Deal singing up on stage just brought back so many memories of all the great female led 1990s alternative bands that I listened to in high school.

Here's the video for "Spacewoman"